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Bordeaux, France

August 3, 2016by shalommorris 14 Comments

Bordeaux is one of those Spanish and Portuguese communities that I’d heard about but had never quite understood how it fit in amongst the rest of Western Sephardim. That is […]

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Nefuzot Yehuda – Bayonne, France 

August 1, 2016by shalommorris 11 Comments

In terms of Portuguese Jewry Bayonne is somewhat of a misnomer. The Jewish community was actually based on the other side of the Adour River in what is called St Esprit (where […]

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Basque Country – Following The Converso Escape Route

July 27, 2016by shalommorris 23 Comments

Basque Country is a unique and fascinating region. It preserves its own language – not like any other, though it straddles both sides of the French-Spanish border. Located just west […]

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Temple Buffault – Paris

July 11, 2014by shalommorris 5 Comments

During my recent swing through Europe, and my visits to the Spanish and Portuguese congregations of Amsterdam and London, I also visited the Portuguese synagogue of Paris, Temple Buffalt. I […]

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Gomez Mill House

November 20, 2013by shalommorris 1 Comment

Before even starting my first day at Shearith Israel, I set out to connect with its past, in August of 2009.  And that I did with an excursion up the […]

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